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Sunday, 19 June 2016

Savoury Bread Frittata

I couldn't
think of a good title for this dish.I
don't think it's a frittata although it has eggs in it.I don't think it's a bread pudding, although
there is stale bread in it.Whatever, it
is a good way to whip up a filling lunch with only a handful of ingredients.

Ingredients

2 leftover hamburger
buns (with sesame and caraway seeds)

6 eggs

Can of
evaporated milk

Salt and
pepper

Tiny bit of
cayenne pepper

Butter

Some
leftover ham, sliced

Grated
cheese ( I used a mix of pizza blend and freshly grated parmesan)

If I had
been thinking I would also have added a few leaves of baby spinach

Method

Preheat
your oven to a moderate heat.

Grease your
deep oven dish with butter – generously – or you know what will happen!

Slice your
bread.

Whisk the
eggs and milk together

Put your
first layer of bread on the bottom, season it, add some of the grated cheese
and then pour over some of the eggy mixture to cover.Put on some of the ham.

Repeat with
another layer of bread, cheese, ham and seasoning.

Because I
didn't dip the bread into the egg mixture I just pressed down on the top of the
dish to make sure the egg squeezed through the bread.

A fine
layer of parmesan on top along with a few knobs of butter and you are ready to
pop it into the oven.

Mine took
about 35 minutes to cook – but all my ingredients were pretty cold at the
outset – if you have them at room temperature the cooking time would be less.

This was
tasty and filling – you couldn't actually taste the bread itself but it gave
the dish body – and the sesame and caraway seeds that were on the buns added a
nice zing of flavour.

I've seen similar preparations called "strata" -- FWIW. Yesterday at a brunch celebration I was served something like that with spinach and squash cubes in between the bread cubes. I think it was a vegetarian brunch, so no ham.But ham sounds like a very delicious idea.